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Non-Mac specific tip warning! This appeared first on my personal blog, but I hope you find it useful here also.
If you’re like me (and God help you if you are), you have an iGoogle home page set up at www.google.com/ig that displays all of your favorite newsfeeds, weather, etc. You may even have gone so far as to create a custom theme using the new ‘theme maker’ or are using one of the thousands of (slightly tacky) themes already available.
In addition to that, you may be slightly OCD about organizing your stuff into multiple tabs…me, …
I recently had the need to recover the data from a 1tb Time Capsule disk, but the built-in archiving function was amazingly, painfully slow. So I decided to take the old fashioned route – by removing the drive and connecting to my computer directly.
It’s quite simple actually, as you’ll see below. Remove the rubber bottom, a few screws and you’re in! Attach the drive to an external SATA reader and you have instant access to your files and can copy them back to your system at a much higher speed. You could also, if you’re feeling spunky, upgrade the drive to a larger size.
Wondering where all of your disk space has gone since the AppStore launched? Check your home folder!
If you navigate to your ‘Music/iTunes/Mobile Applications’ folder, you will find all of your downloaded AppStore purchases. What you will also find is that there are multiple copies of these files; the reason being that when you update an app, instead of simply being replaced on your hard drive, it is instead given a new name. Usually this is a numeric value appended to the end of the filename, for instance, a new version of ‘casino.ipa’ becomes ‘casino 1.ipa’.
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One of my pet peeves is that by default, when using a browser such as Firefox or Safari, you can not use the ‘tab’ key to navigate from field to field. Examples include moving from a text box such as ’serial number’ to a drop down field such as ‘country’.
But by enabling one setting you can change this behavior to allow faster keyboard navigation.
Open ‘System Preferences’, then the ‘Keyboard & Mouse’ section.
At the bottom of this preferences pane, select the …
Sometimes it’s a little difficult to know what is taking up all of your hard drive space. Using built-in Finder tools, you can find out and act accordingly.
Others simply call me Scott. But regardless, they are both right. I’ll answer to my given name and will also proudly spin my head around, Exorcist style, when someone mentions my other name of Space Cowboy.
I mean, who wouldn’t jump at the chance to optimize their productivity and workflow by keeping their desktop clean? A fool, that’s who. Perhaps even a damned fool. Yeah, I said it.
I’ll start this sordid tale by revealing to you that I come from a Unix background – not at first though – for several years I supplemented my income by writing software for Windows …
After spending the day moving from iGoogle to NetNewsWire/NewsGator, my final task was to tell FireFox to open RSS feeds in NNW instead of the browser itself. Back in the old days, FireFox had a seperate tab for RSS functions, but these days it’s just another lonely denizen of the ‘Applications’ tab in Preferences.
To access RSS handling, open Prefs, then click Applications, and finally, type ‘feed’ into the search box. Select NetNewsWire from the list, and you’re ready to go. You *may* need to restart FireFox to put the change …
Compiled by best selling author David Pogue in todays New York Times:
* You can double-click a word to highlight it in any document, e-mail or Web page.
* When you get an e-mail message from eBay or your bank, claiming that you have an account problem or a question from a buyer, it’s probably a “phishing scam” intended to trick you into typing your password. Don’t click the link in the message. If in doubt, go into your browser and type “www.ebay.com” (or whatever) manually.
* Nobody, but nobody, is going to give you half of $80 …
You can create a document library in iPhoto to save important documents or to archive web pages complete with images. How, you ask?
In any application that can print, choose to do so, then choose ‘Save PDF to iPhoto’.
Your document will then be saved to iPhoto and you can create folders to organize your items. This could be very useful for saving purchase receipts, online form submissions, photo galleries, Word/Keynote documents and much more.
Thanks to reader Tori for the tip inspiration!
More info here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305492
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